Dirty Girl (Terri Clark song)
Encyclopedia
"Dirty Girl" is a song recorded by Canadian
country music
artist Terri Clark
. It was released as the first single from her unreleased album, My Next Life. It reached number 30 on the Billboard
Hot Country Songs
chart in the United States.
The song was written by Tom Shapiro
and Rivers Rutherford
and intended to be performed by a man. Clark reworked the song to be performed from a female perspective.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
country music
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
artist Terri Clark
Terri Clark
Terri Lynn Sauson , known professionally as Terri Clark, is a Canadian country music artist who has had success in both Canada and the United States. Signed to Mercury Records in 1995, she released her self-titled debut that year...
. It was released as the first single from her unreleased album, My Next Life. It reached number 30 on the Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...
chart in the United States.
The song was written by Tom Shapiro
Tom Shapiro
Tom Shapiro is an American songwriter and occasional record producer, known primarily for his work in country music. To date, he holds four Country Songwriter of the Year awards from Broadcast Music Incorporated, as well as the Songwriter of the Decade award from the Nashville Songwriters...
and Rivers Rutherford
Rivers Rutherford
Rivers Rutherford is an American country music songwriter. Active since the mid-1990s as a songwriter, he has penned several Number One country hits, including "Ain't Nothing 'bout You" by Brooks & Dunn, which was the Number One country song of 2001 according to Billboard...
and intended to be performed by a man. Clark reworked the song to be performed from a female perspective.
Chart performance
| Chart (2007) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Canadian Hot 100 | 68 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs | 30 |